Taliban express their intention to build their own Air Force in Afghanistan
The Taliban in Afghanistan have now expressed their intention to make their own Air Force two months after landing the country in a lightning blitz, reported news agency ANI, citing a news piece published in knewz. The Taliban also reportedly want to bolster force and skillset among its species, said the report further.
We’re trying to use the former government’s air force-the professionals that they had-and make sure they all return. The stylish policy for us is-whatever department is demanded; we’re going to have it,”ANI quoted a prophet for the Taliban’s Ministry of the Interior, Qari Saeed Khosty, as saying.
” No doubt, a full air force will be erected soon- formerly the governance is completely established. It isn’t completely established yet,”another person familiar with the development was quoted as saying by ANI.
Lately, three Taliban- piloted copters including a US Black Hawk stationed a quick response force at Kubal’s main military sanitarium Sardar Dawood Khan during a suspected ISIS-K attack.
Before the Taliban seized Kabul, the Afghan Air force had further than 200 aircraft that included 167 aeroplanes, according to the June 2021 assessment by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
Still, it’s still unclear that how important of the outfit that the Taliban captured from the Afghan Air Force is exploitable. An bigwig said that the main focus of the Taliban is to use the aircraft only in critical situations and not”not to waste coffers”, said the ANI report, citing knewz.
The Taliban had captured nine major airbases across the country including the strategic businesses of Khost, Kunduz, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Herat.
According to the ANI report, the Taliban top leadership said that they’re determined to come a” tone-sufficient” force in view of the profitable extremity gripping the country after the transnational community freezed the fiscal aid to the war- torn country.
The prophet for the Ministry of Defense, Enayatullah Khwaraizmi, also stressed that it’s vital for the new Afghan service to be” completely independent”and said that the external cooperation programs will still be determined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the ANI report further, citing knewz.